Employee-Student Policy

Professionalism and Working Relations with Fellow Employees and Students

California AB 500 requires that schools provide parents and guardians the School's policy on employee-student interactions. Below is Sierra Canyon's policy:

Sierra Canyon School strives to maintain a workplace that fosters mutual respect and promotes harmonious, productive working relationships. Employees are representatives of Sierra Canyon both within and outside the School. It is expected that the School will always be well represented by courteous behavior and a cooperative attitude toward school staff, students and parents, and people outside the campus.

Although Sierra Canyon culture is informal, employees must maintain both the personal and professional boundaries that are necessary to foster strong, positive relationships and to promote the healthy and normal development of students. To this end, employees should remain on a "Mr." or "Ms." basis with students; refrain from physical contact with students; and should not engage in out-of-school socializing with students.

Employees should refrain from idle talk about with students that might prejudice others in the School community. Employees should use professional discretion when discussing school business. Negative comments regarding school, students, and faculty are destructive and inappropriate.

All employees must conduct themselves in a professional manner and work together in an atmosphere of civility. Everyone should be treated with respect. Professional demeanor includes, but is not limited to, being trustworthy and dependable, remaining flexible and cooperative, using good judgment, showing initiative, being accurate, and maintaining confidentiality. Unprofessional behavior in the workplace includes, but is not limited to, being rude, using foul language or swearing, shouting, making inappropriate jokes, making comments that demeans another, engaging in name calling or nicknames that may be offensive or upsetting to another, gossiping or spreading rumors about another individual, breaching confidentiality, harassing, bullying, or touching another person inappropriately, and participating in horseplay.

All employees are expected to be courteous and considerate of one another. Problems should be discussed in private. If differences persist, employees should discuss them with the Head of School to work out a solution. 

Lower School: 11052 Independence Avenue
Middle and Upper School: 20801 Rinaldi Street
Chatsworth, CA 91311  | 818.882.8121
Sierra Canyon School is a private, independent, non-sectarian, co-educational, college preparatory school for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12 located in Chatsworth, California. The highly cosmopolitan campus community is reflective of the Greater Los Angeles area and the world at large. Students are empowered to realize their greatest creative, ethical, intellectual and physical promise through small class sizes, a diverse student-teacher culture and a family-like environment.